The
demagogic efforts of the Liberal/Progressive political regime of Barack
Hussein Obama to find some mechanism to attenuate or eliminate the Second
Amendment right "of the people to bear" arms, without allowing
a vote "by the people" on whether to amend the Constitution
pursuant to the procedures provided by the Founding Fathers, raise many
questions, including:

Would
the Liberal/Progressives who are frothing at the mouth to take away
the arms possessed by Americans have taken the same position to strip
the Second Amendment right to bear arms from such Americans as, for
instance, famed Christian Minister and abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher,
who, pursuant to the Second Amendment, openly bought and provided guns
to abolitionists to defend against the tyranny of government-approved
slavery? (Author William J. Federer details Beecher's arming abolitionists
in Federer's www.AmericanMinute.com, Jan. 13, 2013.)

Would
modern Liberal/Progressives who are so willing to strip this generation
of Americans of our Second Amendment rights, tell Henry Ward Beecher's
sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, that she really should not have a Constitutional
Second Amendment right to have a gun in the house while she was writing
"Uncle Tom's Cabin," or after its publication?

Would
they take away the arms of the anti-slavery Americans who risked their
lives to save the lives of escaping slaves through the "underground
railroad?"

What
about anti-slavery Americans in the South -- should they have had their
Second Amendment rights taken from them to bear arms to defend themselves
in the years before, during, and after the Civil War when they were
at great risk of harm?

What
about John Brown? If anybody gave evidence of being mad as a hatter,
an utter fanatic loosed from reason, it was John Brown. But would modern-day
Liberal/Progressives say that America would be a better place if "strict
gun laws" had been enforced and prevented John Brown from having
guns when he raided the Harper's Ferry Arsenal to get guns to fight
slavery?

It
would be difficult if not impossible to find such a Liberal/Progressive.
Yet, today, the same Liberal/Progressives who celebrate John Brown as
a hero who stood against the tyranny of slavery, gun in hand, bellow,
pound their breasts, weep tears, demagogue, that we must attenuate or
limit the right to bear arms guaranteed to all Americans in the Second
Amendment.

As
is their wont, Liberal/Progressives lament that we must limit the Second
Amendment Right to bear arms to "protect the children." How
many black children of slaves were "protected" without guns?
How many of their parents were freed from the tyranny of slavery without
arms?

If
Liberal/progressives of today would not strip the Second Amendment right
of Americans to bear arms of that era who opposed the tyranny of government
as expressed in slavery -- and, remember, slavery was government policy
North and South, after all, even upheld by the high priests of the judiciary
up to an including the lawyers on the Supreme Court, e.g., Dred Scott
Decision-- then those Liberal/Progressives should not attenuate or strip
away the Second Amendment right to bear ams of Americans of this era
who are willing to defend the nation against the slavery of political
totalitarianism.

Every
American veteran has sworn to "defend the Constitution of the United
States against all enemies, foreign and domestic." Every American
veteran knows when the obligations of that oath end -- never. Every
American ought to live that same oath if we are not to submit Americans
of this and future generations to the slavery of political totalitarianism.

One
of America's greatest military heroes, General Norman Schwarzkopf, who
lead our forces against the tyranny of Sadaam Hussein and who died most
recently, succinctly stated an enduring truth:

"Some
things are worth living for. Some things are worth dying for. One of
those things is freedom."

Freedom.
That is what the Founding Fathers created for us and bequeathed to us
by force of arms against a tyrant abusing his office and power, King
George III of England. The Founding Fathers created the Second Amendment
right "of the people to bear arms" knowing how fragile freedom
is, and how awful tyranny is.

The
Founding Fathers enshrined that right of the people to bear arms not
as "an executive order," not as a law," not as anything
which could be taken away as temporary political winds might blow this
way or that depending on who held governmental power through the ages.
Rather, the Founding Fathers made the Second Amendment Right of the
people to bear arms an enduring right inuring to all future generations
of Americans, as long as the nation existed or the Constitution itself
was not amended to eliminate or attenuate the Second Amendment as the
Founding Fathers provided -- that is, only by a vote of the people in
three-fourths of the States to ratify any amendment.

Now,
Liberal/Progressives, from Barack Hussein Obama down through Joe Biden
to Harry Reid in the Senate and Nancy Pelosi in the House, want to diminish,
attenuate, limit, weaken, and render impotent if possible, the Second
Amendment right to bear arms, by "executive order," or "statute"
or other means, without a vote of the people themselves on the question
of whether to amend the Constitution.

Simply
stated: If Americans of this generation should allow the right to bear
arms to be diminished or destroyed without following the amendment process
provided by the Founding Fathers, they will be allowing themselves and
future generations to become "subjects" rather than "citizens,"
no longer free Americans under a government existing by the "consent
of the governed" but, rather, subject people existing by the consent
of the government.

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It
is a truism, proved true by history itself, that those who create freedom
arm the people to protect the people from the government; for example,
the American Founding Fathers. Those who create totalitarianism disarm
the people in order to protect the government from the people; for example,
Hitler, Stalin, Mao, the Saudi Islamic Wahabists and all Islamist governments
under Shari'ia Law, Sadaam Hussein, and Barack Hussein Obama, Joe Biden,
Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and the modern Liberal/Progressive Democrat
Party politicians and members who would disarm the American people they
would govern.

Gen.
Schwarzkopf was right: "Some things are worth fighting for. Some
things are worth dying for. One of those things is freedom." Slaves,
whether literal or political under totalitarian all-intrusive governments,
do not have guns -- or freedom.

Thank
God and the Founding Fathers that Americans still have arms, and freedom--and
will as long as they have the courage to fight for them, and die for
them, if necessary.
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and numerous civil rights, workers rights, and veterans rights organizations.
He has testified as a constitutional expert at hearings before the U.S.
House and Senate representing The American Legion.

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Gen.
Schwarzkopf was right: "Some things are worth fighting for. Some
things are worth dying for. One of those things is freedom." Slaves,
whether literal or political under totalitarian all-intrusive governments,
do not have guns -- or freedom.